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Coins and Banknotes Lady a of the Property Los Angeles | January 28, 2019 Coins and Banknotes Lady a of The Property Coins and Banknotes | Los Angeles | January 28, 2019 25528 Coins and Banknotes The Property of a Lady Los Angeles | Monday January 28, 2019 BONHAMS BIDS INQUIRIES REGISTRATION 7601 W. Sunset Boulevard +1 (323) 850 7500 Paul Song IMPORTANT NOTICE Los Angeles, California 90046 +1 (323) 850 6090 fax 323-436-5455 Please note that all customers, bonhams.com [email protected] irrespective of any previous activity To bid via the internet please visit with Bonhams, are required to PREVIEW www.bonhams.com/25528 Alexandra Schettini complete the Bidder Registration Friday January 25, 323-436-5508 Form in advance of the sale. The 12 noon to 5pm Please note that bids must be [email protected] form can be found at the back of Saturday January 26, submitted no later than 4pm on every catalogue and on our 12 noon to 5pm the day prior to the auction. New Jim Jones website at www.bonhams.com and Sunday January 27, bidders must also provide proof Special Consultant should be returned by email or 12 noon to 5pm of identity and address when post to the specialist department Monday, January 28, submitting bids. ILLUSTRATIONS or to the bids department at 9am to 12 noon Front cover: Lot 196 [email protected] Please contact client services with Session page: Lot 95 SALE NUMBER any bidding inquiries. Back cover: Lot 97 To bid live online and / or leave internet bids please go to 25528 Please see pages 76 to 78 for www.bonhams.com/ Lots 1 - 231 bidder information including auctions/24620 and click on Conditions of Sale, after-sale the Register to bid link at the CATALOG collection and shipment. top left of the page. $35 Bonhams 220 San Bruno Avenue San Francisco, California 94103 © 2018, Bonhams & Butterfields Auctioneers Corp.; All rights reserved. Bond No. 57BSBGL0808 ORDER OF SALE Ancient Coins 1-11 US Colonials Through Silver Dollars 12-28 US Gold 29-94 1931-D $20 95 Commemorative Coins 96-99C US Modern Commemoratives and Bullion 100-144 World Bullion and Gold Coins 145-170 Chinese Panda and other Gold Coins 171-189 Clark Gruber & Co. Coinage 190-204 Currency 205-231 Coins and Banknotes The Property of a Lady Lots 1 - 231 1 4 1 4 ACHAEMENID EMPIRE, AR SIGLOS, C. 5TH-4TH CENTURIES PTOLEMAIC EGYPT, PTOLEMY I, 323-305/4 BC AR BC. NGC VF TETRADRACHM CH VF NGC 5.49 Grams. Strike: 4/5, Surface:4/5. Type III. King in kneeling / 14.41 Grams. Strike: 4/5, Surface: 2/5. Svoronos 162, SNG running stance right holding spear and bow / Incuse banker’s punch Copenhagen 29. In the name of Alexander III of Macedon, Alexandria, at center. Deep sea-blue toning shows in the recesses of the design. ca. 311/0-305 BC. Diademed head of the deified Alexander right, $150 - 200 wearing elephant skin headdress / AΛEXANΔPOY, Athena Alkidemos advancing right; to right, two monograms. A bit rough in surface quality, but well centered and well defined. $1,000 - 1,200 2 2 JUDEA, BAR KOKHBA REVOLT, 132-135 AD, AR ZUZ NGC CHOICE VF 3.63 Grams. Hendin 1422. TJC 283a. Undated issue of Year 3 5 (134/135 AD). Paleo-Hebrew Simon within a wreath of thin branches wrapped around eight almonds, medallion at top / For the freedom of 5 Jerusalem; fluted jug, handle on left, willow branch on right. Obverse LOCRIS, LOCRIS OPUNTII, C. 369-338 BC. AR STATER strike somewhat muddled and soft; reverse sharper and quite 12.05 Grams. BCD Lokris 63. Gulbenkian 492. Head of Demeter left, attractive. Deep toning is seen in the fields. wearing triple pendant earring and necklace / OΠONTI-ΩN, Ajax the $1,000 - 1,200 Younger advancing right, nude but for helmet, holding sword and shield, interior of shield decorated with palmette and leaping lion, Boeotian helmet below. Ex: Superior Stamp & Coin, Parker Collection, (6/1998), lot 6344. This coin has been deemed NO DECISION by NGC. All sales are final on this lot. Good Very Fine $1,200 - 1,500 3 3 CORINTHIA, CORINTH, 4TH CENTURY BC AR STATER NGC XF 8.52 Grams. Strike: 5/5, Surface: 4/5. Pegasi 451, Ravel 1076. Pegasus flying left, qoppa below / Head of Athena left, wearing crestless Corinthian helmet pushed back on head, behind, I and Artemis Phosphorus advancing to left carrying torch. A pleasing specimen, nicely centered and quite smooth overall. $700 - 900 4 | BONHAMS 6 8 6 8 KINGDOM OF MACEDON, ANTIGONUS III DOSON, 229-221 BC. ROME, IMPERATORIAL, MN. CORDIUS RUFUS, C. 46 BC. AR AR TETRADRACHM NGC AU DENARIUS. NGC CHOICE VF. 17.05 Grams. Strike: 5/5, Surface: 3/5. SNG Copenhagen 1204. 4.1 Grams. Strike:2/5, Surface:3/5. 440. RRC 463/1. RSC 1-2c. Dewing 1206. Amphipolis, c. 227-225 BC. Head of Poseidon right, Rome, RVFVS, Jugate heads of the Dioscuri right, each wearing wearing wreath of seaweed / Apollo, examining bow held in extended pileus ornamented with laurel and surmounted by stars / MN (ligate) right hand, seated left on prow left inscribed BAΣIΛEΩΣ ANTIΓONOY; • CORDIVS, Venus standing facing, head left, scales in right hand, monogram below. Slight porosity is noted at the right of the obverse, transverse scepter in left, Cupid on her shoulder. rich golden patina is seen in the recesses of the design. $200 - 300 $1,200 - 1,500 7 9 7 9 SICILY, SYRACUSE, DEINOMENID TYRANNY, C. 475-465 BC. ROMAN EMPIRE, VESPASIAN, AD 69-79, ORICHALCUM AR TETRADRACHM SESTERTIUS NGC XF 16.85 Grams. Struck under Hieron I, ca. 475-470 BC. Boehringer 25.24 Grams. RIC 161. Hendin 1500b. Rome, AD 71. Laureate head Series XIIb, 321 (V156/R224). HGC 2, 1307. Charioteer driving of Vespasian right / IVDEΛ CΛPTΛ, Jewess seated right mourning walking quadriga right, Nike flying right above, crowning horses / beneath a palm tree, the emperor stands behind, to right holding a head of Arethusa right, wearing pearl hair band, four dolphins around. parazonium and scepter. Rare variant with different spelling of Judaea. Deeply struck on slightly porous flan, some loss of detail at base of Unusually smooth surfaces. The obverse has toned a beautiful jade- obverse. Ex: Superior Stamp & Coin, Parker Collection, (6/1998), lot green color while the reverse is a contrasting deep brick-red. 6264. $1,500 - 2,500 This coin has been deemed NO DECISION by NGC, all sales are final on this lot. Very Fine, surfaces slightly granular $800 - 1,200 COINS AND BANKNOTES | 5 10 10 BYZANTINE EMPIRE, THEOPHILUS IV, 829-842 AD, AV TREMISSIS, NGC AU 1.13 grams. Strike: 3/5, Surface:3/5. DOC 27a; SB 1678. Struck 831-842 AD. Syracuse mint. QEO-FILOS, crowned bust facing, wearing chlamys and holding cross on globe / QEO-FILOS, crowned bust facing, wearing loros and holding cross potent. Small flan flaw at center. Otherwise, a bright example with sharp definition and only the slightest wear. $250 - 350 12 11 11 BYZANTINE, THEOPHILUS, 829-842 AD, AV SOLIDUS 3.84 Grams. Sear 1670. DO 24. Syracuse, 830-842 AD. ΘE-OFILOS, crowned bust of Theophilus facing, wearing chlamys, holding globus cruciger / ΘE-OFILOS, crowned bust of Theophilus facing, wearing loros and holding long cross. Crisply struck from fresh dies and lustrous. 12 Syracuse was reconquered from the Vandals by Belisarius in AD 535 12 and became the Empire’s most important city in the West, except 1787 FUGIO CENT, POINTED RAYS, STATES UNITED for Ravenna. Constans II made it his capital for five years, from Newman 11-X, W-6790, R.4. Well centered and just as well struck, AD 663 until his assassination in 668. Its mint produced both gold the surfaces are glossy brown throughout. Some dark streaky toning and bronze coins in large quantities, acquiring a style and fabric all is seen at the top of the reverse. One of the finer Fugios we have their own. Despite enduring a major Arab siege in 827-8, the city of seen in some time; and Continental Currency, February 17, 1776 Syracuse remained in Byzantine hands thanks to the timely arrival of $2/3, Extremely Fine, a well printed and well centered early fractional reinforcements sent by Michael II. Although the Arabs steadily gained Continental that is always popular with collectors. Bright red serial control of the rest of Sicily, Syracuse stayed under Byzantine control number (222982) and signature at bottom. (PCGS 883) until it was finally lost in May of 878. Brown Uncirculated About Uncirculated $1,500 - 1,800 $800 - 1,000 6 | BONHAMS 15 15 1909 50C PR64 PCGS Sharply impressed overall with a smattering of hazy, silver-gray and golden toning over both sides. From an extremely low mintage of just 650 pieces. Housed in a green label PCGS holder. (PCGS 6556) $700 - 900 16 13 CERTIFIED 1941-1947 LIBERTY WALKING HALF DOLLAR SET, 13 ALL MS64. 1909 10C MS63 PCGS; 1909 25C (RAW) Set includes: 1941 PCGS; 1941-D ANACS; 1941-S PCGS; 1942 The dime is well struck and exhibits moderate gray and brown toning, PCGS; 1942-D PCGS; 1942-S ANACS; 1943 PCGS; 1943-D PCGS; housed in a green label PCGS holder; the quarter is sharp with frosty 1943-S NGC; 1944-PDS PCGS; 1945-PDS PCGS; 1946 PCGS; surfaces and traces of sunset toning on each side. 1946-D ANACS; 1946-S PCGS; 1947 NGC; and 1947-D PCGS. Choice Uncirculated Many of the coins are housed in earlier generation holders. Total: 20 $180 - 220 coins. $1,150 - 1,250 14 17 14 1909 50C MS62 PCGS 17 This nicely struck example displays attractive luster, with light toning 1877 PROOF TR$1 present.
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